| The BBC are carrying an article on a new traffic centre that would have been dull as dishwater, but for this quote from traffic camera controller Matt Kirby*:
"We had an odd one the other day," he says, "200 starlings fell out of the sky, dead, onto the M65. We thought it was bird flu but they'd just flown too near a power line or something. Luckily the delays weren't that bad."
[source: BBC News - 'Sights set on cutting traffic jams']
I've searched and searched, but I can't find the section of the Highway Code relevant to dealing with mass starling suicide. Slow down and prepare to stop? Or sound the horn and accelerate quickly through what the BBC delicately termed "feathery carnage"? Good job they didn't ask me that one in the exam... (Obviously, the answer to a theory question is never, ever, accelerate quickly. Despite its inclusion as an option one hundred per cent of the time.)
* Could it be the very same, OJ? |
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